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Predictability brings about security.
Magda Gerber /
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Predictability can eventually be defended.
Nick Nurse /
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We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.
Kemp Muhl / Model
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The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
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I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.
Katherine Heigl / Actress
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Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
David Agus / Author
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No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
Hugh Mackay / Reporter
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
Andy Stanley / Pastor
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Order
Planning
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Systems
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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
Ceelo Green /
Cousin
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The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.
Ted Wheeler /
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens / Financier
Business
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I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.
Gretchen Rubin / Author
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens / Financier
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With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.
Andrew Neil /
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Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.
Mark Pincus / Entrepreneur
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
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We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
Bob Mcdonnell / Former Governor Of Virginia
Certainty
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Tax
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I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.
Nadya Suleman /
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Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.
Therese Fowler /
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Ponder
Sights
Someplace
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To deliver predictability, we have partnered with Biotique for in-room toiletries, Airtel for Wi-Fi and DTH, and small laundromats in cities to provide clean linen in our rooms.
Ritesh Agarwal /
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
Raghuram Rajan / Adviser
Makers
Predictability
Surprise
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In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
William J. Clinton / 42Nd U.s. President
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Kids
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We need to work together to support common-sense solutions to establish and maintain regulatory certainty and predictability for the mining industry and reduce excessive, duplicative, and expensive permitting delays.
Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers / U.s. Representative
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Expensive
Mining
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Delays
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I have this internal cultural struggle where there's a side of me that is very Brazilian that misses the food and culture, and a side of me that's very American that really loves the structure and predictability here.
Morena Baccarin / Actress
Predictability
Structure
Brazilian
Cultural
Internal
Misses
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For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
Brad Feld /
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An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.
Lynn Good /
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Stability
Dividend
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We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
Billy Beane / Baseball Player
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Asset
Casino
Insurance
Rates
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People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!
Michael Gerber / Author
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Crave
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Predictability
Build
Use People More
Continuously
Habits
Helps
Importantly
Improve
Systems
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When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not.
Sonia Sotomayor / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Predictability
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Thinking
Views
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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
John Updike / Novelist
Art
Boring
Dependable
Difficulty
Fields
Levels
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Deep
Field
Level
Some
Professional
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Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.
Walter Kirn / Novelist
Founding
Humanity
Instagram
Intimacy
Predictability
Spontaneity
Twitter
Apart
Writers
Facebook
Portion
Sacrificing
Web
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I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.
Scarlett Thomas / Author
Anna
Mean
Predictability
Reading
Thinking
Good Me Important
Good Me Way
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In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and technology. They want predictability in everything they do, and it starts from people. It starts from investors. It starts from the regulators. You see that mindset across the society.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw / Entrepreneur
Investors
Mindset
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Science And Technology
Unknown
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When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.
Brian Schatz /
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Neutrality
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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.
Bee Wilson /
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Coffee
Comforting
Console
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Sipping
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That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.
Robert Sapolsky /
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Outlets
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Reality
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Support
Control
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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.
Khaled Hosseini / Novelist
Affection
Book
Children
Ordinary
Ordinary People
People
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Reasonable
Life Love Happiness
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